This intelligence is continuously being advanced by the Critical Watch™ Basecamp Labs™ research team, which builds custom expressions to add contextual data to incidents generated by risk detection technologies so these intelligent countermeasure recommendations can be made.

A recent report by the 451 Group highlights the capabilities of the ACI Platform™ that will support offerings from HP and benefit mutual customers: "A vulnerability may exist in the Web layer, but the most appropriate countermeasures may exist within the network layer or in the data layer. Knowing how disparate different support teams can be within some organizations, this adds a degree of cohesiveness to overall operations that has generally been lacking. This intelligence can lead to better risk decisions, and as a result the value lies in an increased ability to orchestrate the security process from detection through to mitigation."

"Finding and understanding system vulnerabilities is just the first step in countering threats, as customers need critical information about which vulnerabilities should be fixed," said Michael Callahan, vice president, product solutions marketing, HP Enterprise Security Products. "The interoperability with Critical Watch allows us to provide the security intelligence necessary to make the right risk decisions about today's threats."

About ACI Platform™The ACI Platform™ is the first technology that combines risk data from a variety of sources throughout the data stack and recommends and initiates security countermeasures to mitigate those risks. It complements existing security intelligence gathering solutions to provide a complete picture of risk-correlated countermeasures.

About Critical Watch™Critical Watch is the innovator of ACI Platform™ – a next generation information security technology that combines comprehensive risk intelligence with active mitigation. Critical Watch clients are Global 2000 enterprises across verticals such as healthcare, financial services, state and local government, ecommerce, and manufacturing.